California's Inferno

Northern and Southern California alike have been facing outbreaks of wildfires left and right. In three days, approximately 600 fires have erupted and emergency workers have been attempting to evacuate the areas. The Kincade fire in Sonoma County has burned down 16,000 acres of land within a few short hours. Around 50,000 people have been evacuated from above Los Angeles as the fire can no longer be controlled by firefighters due to wind blow. The fire is believed to have started from a transmission line breaking in Northern California. As this is not California's first encounter with a large fire and evacuation of citizens, people have begun to feel unsafe and question what has really ignited these fires. The question of what to do when the fires strike is one that has been pondered, but the answer appears to be evacuate and hope for the best. Once the fires ignite, there is not much of a hope to put them out unless we take action and notice what anything seems to be awry. To decrease the chances of forest fires by not allowing campfires to grow to large or unattended to, we could begin to decrease the chances of accidental fires occurring. Our communities are being threatened and imposed upon by human activity, though justified, and what seems to be the most minor of problems to a colossal, unstoppable, and terrifying problem.
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